FUTURE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT LTD

🌱Startupactive
SC820543 · ltd · incorporated 2024-08-26
Investment thesis
Established operating company — standard diligence applies, no dominant angle.
Why interesting: Live, filing, normal profile.
Why risky: No standout signals in either direction.
Why now
Window opening · high confidence
More negotiable than before — 3 signals weakening over the last 30 days.
  • · Deal-killer verdict: clean → complicated
  • · Hygiene score: 90 → 85
  • · PSC count: 1 → 0
Opportunity decay
softening · 6-months
Softening — cumulative signals suggest this becomes more negotiable over the next 3–6 months.
  • · 3 recent signals weakening vs 0 strengthening
What changed my view
Last 30 days

Picture worsened over the last 30 days — 3 negative signals vs 0 positive.

  • Deal-killer verdict: cleancomplicated
  • Hygiene score: 9085
  • PSC count: 10
Last 90 days

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Last 180 days

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🔒Estimated value
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Turnover
year to Aug 2025
Net worth
book net assets
Opportunity
76/100
Strong
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What this business does
Primary activity: Other education n.e.c.
Sector: Education
Investor take
Pursue
Active trading company. Family succession underway — not a classic acquisition target.

Opportunity 76/100 (strong), bankability 65/100. Same-surname younger director in place — likely family handover, not open to sale. Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

Data confidence

Overall: low (53/100)

Sparse data coverage. Treat AI-generated outputs as preliminary. Manual diligence essential.

Company profile
address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date
100
Financials
1 year of iXBRL accounts extracted (no YoY comparison) + narrative notes parsed
50
Lenders & charges
No charge records returned
50
Directors & officers
3 officers (3 active, 3 linked, 3 with DOB)
90
Ownership & PSC
No PSC data returned
40
Director network
Network not yet resolved
30
Filing history
No filing history
0
Gazette notices
No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)
60
Opportunity Score
76/100Strong
PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional 

Solid opportunity signal. Worth a dedicated memo and management meeting.

Business quality
60
Adequate — check latest filings for context.
Acquirability
75
Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.
Risk profile
85
Few red flags.
Signal strength
90
Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

1 year extracted from filed iXBRL accounts
Cash
Net Worth
Current Assets
Current Liabilities

Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · IFRS
Metric2025-08-31
Average employees0

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

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Corporate timeline (4 events)Click to expand
  1. 2026-06-10
    BROWN, Erin appointed
    director
  2. 2024-08-26
    🏢
    Company incorporated
    As FUTURE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT LTD
  3. 2024-08-26
    MILLER, Lewis appointed
    director
  4. 2024-08-26
    MILLER, Scott appointed
    director

Owner dependency

71/100
High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS
  • +Senior director age: Director aged approximately 58 — approaching natural succession window.
  • +Family involvement: Multiple officers share a surname — likely family business, which concentrates governance.
  • +Young company: Only 1.9 years old — management layer unlikely to be developed.

Red flags

clean
No red flags detected from available public data. (This is not a clean bill of health — detailed accounts review still recommended.)

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Company details

Statusactive
Typeltd
Incorporated2024-08-26
Jurisdictionscotland
Primary SIC85590 — Other education n.e.c.

Registered office

3b Ormiston Terrace
Edinburgh
EH12 7SJ
Scotland

Filing status

Accounts
Next due: 2027-05-31
Last made up to: 2025-08-31
Confirmation statement
Next due: 2026-09-08
Last: 2025-08-25

Officers (3 active · 0 resigned)

BROWN, Erin
director · ~31y · appointed 2026-06-10
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Active
MILLER, Lewis
director · ~31y · appointed 2024-08-26
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Active
MILLER, Scott
director · ~58y · appointed 2024-08-26
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Active

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